Sermon By Ps.Luke.   

ARE YOU SPIRITUALLY FIT??
When we talk about fitness its mostly about our physical being our body !
Fitness and health they go hand in hand.
So WHO defines health as
• “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”


THE CHARACTERISTICS  OF LIVING  THINGS .

AND HOW ARE WE AS BELIEVERS IN CHRIST NEED TO EXHIBIT THESE CHARACTERISTICS

1.THEY NEED FOOD
WE NEED TO FEED ON GODS WORD
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV

2.THEY BREATHE

WE SHOULD BREATHE PRAYERS TO GOD
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Philippians 4:6 NIV
PHIL 4:6-7

3.THEY MOVE
MOVE IN CHRISTIAN SERVICE
Like how the apostles in preaching the word of god by the power of holy spirit
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 1:8 NIV

4.THEY EXCRETE
WE SHOULD EXCRETE THE WORKS OF  FLESH
Anything which displeases God
And have a heart of repentance and be renewed

But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
Colossians 3:8 NIV
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
Colossians 3:9 NIV
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:10 NIV

Also we see in The following scriptures like
1JoHN ch1 v8
GAL ch 5 v19_26

5.THEY GROW

GROW IN EVERYWAY INTO CHRIST
And to have the faith and knowledge of Christ
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Ephesians 4:13 NIV

WHAT WE FEED IS WHAT WE GROW INTO ARE WE ARE YOU FEEDING THE SPIRIT OR THE FLESH?

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
Ephesians 4:14 NIV

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
Ephesians 4:15 NIV


 
6.THEY RESPOND

DIE TO THEIR OWN SELF
Just like how a seed dies and a new plant grows out of it!!
Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
John 12:24 NIV

But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
Matthew 13:23 NIV

7.THEY REPRODUCE

REPRODUCE AND  GIVE BIRTH TO SPIRITUAL CHILDREN
Like how Paul nurtured his spiritual son Timothy  where he says  in( 1 TIM 1:2) his true son in faith
TITUS1:4
PHIL1:10

OUR LIFE SHOULD NEVER A STUMBLING BLOCK TO SOMEONE ELSE.
Like it should not be a discouragement for someone who’s newly into faith. And takes a wrong example.

.SO WHATS YOUR PURPOSE ON EARTH .??
1.You are PLANNED  for gods pleasures
Rev 4:11 matt 22
2.CREATED TO BE LIKE CHRIST
Rom 8:29

3.SHAPED FOR SERVICE
eph 2:10

4.FORMED FOR  GOD’S  FAMILY
Eph 1v 5

5.MADE FOR A MISSION
JOHN
ACTS 20 :24

SO CAN WE  DECIDE TO GET SPIRITUALLY MATURED!!

           And SPIRITUALLY FIT

1.Spiritual maturity doesn’t happen automatically
HEB 5:12.2.It does not happen QUICKLY
3.And it definitely cannot happen  WITHOUT DISCIPLINE